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Extension of the
right-to-buy scheme to housing association tenants in England

Plans to build 200,000
starter homes

Ensuring all people who
work 30 hours per week on the minimum wage pay no income tax

Doubling free childcare
allowance for three and four-year-olds to 30 hours

Increasing the
inheritance tax threshold on family homes to £1m by 2017

No above-inflation rises
in rail fares until 2020

An extra £8bn a year for
the NHS by 2020

Opening 500 more free
schools

An EU referendum by 2017

Economy

The party says
mortgages, schools, hospitals and pensions are some of things that depend on a
"strong economy". The manifesto says the Conservative Party will
continue with its "long-term economic plan".

Running a surplus by
2018 so that the UK "starts to pay down its debts"

No rise in VAT, national
insurance contributions or income tax

A crackdown on tax
evasion and the "aggressive" avoidance of tax

Creating a
"Northern Powerhouse" through investment

Spending £100bn on
infrastructure in the next Parliament

Jobs
and investment

The document says the
Conservative Party is committed to helping people enjoy the "satisfaction
and rewards of a decent job".

Achieving full
employment by helping businesses create two million extra jobs over the course
of the next Parliament

Creating 3 million new
apprenticeships

Cutting £10bn of red
tape over the next Parliament

Giving businesses
"the most competitive taxes of any major economy"

Replacing Jobseeker's
Allowance for 18-21 year-olds with a Youth Allowance time-limited to six
months. After that, they will have to take an apprenticeship or traineeship or
do community work to claim benefits

Requiring 40% of those
entitled to take part in strike ballots to vote for a strike before industrial
action can be held

Requiring companies with
more than 250 employees to publish their gender pay gap - the difference
between average pay for male and female employees

Increasing the minimum
wage to £6.70 by the autumn and to £8 by the end of the decade

Investing £6.9bn in the
UK's research infrastructure up to 2021

"Near universal
superfast broadband" for rural areas

Taxation
and welfare

The manifesto launch
paid significant attention to plans to reduce tax for low-paid workers and
increase benefits for working parents.

Taking everyone who
earns less than £12,500 out of income tax

Passing a new law that
would mean all those working 30 hours a week and earning the minimum wage will
not pay income tax on earnings

Raising the threshold
for the 40p rate of tax so that nobody under £50,000 pays the rate

A freeze on working age
benefits for two years from April 2016 (exemptions for disability and pensioner
benefits)

Lowering the benefit cap
from £26,000 to £23,000 (with exemptions for those receiving Disability Living
Allowance or the Personal Independence Payment)

Giving working parents
of three and four-year-olds 30 hours of free childcare a week

Religious
liberty

They say they will stand up for the freedom of people of all religions –and non-religious
people –to practise their beliefs in peace and safety, for example by
supporting persecuted Christians in the Middle East.

Immigration

The party says it still
wants to see annual net migration in the tens of thousands. It pledges to
reduce the incentive for EU migrants to settle in the UK by:

Negotiating new EU rules
so people will have to be earning in the UK for four years before they can
claim tax credits and child benefits

Introducing a four-year
residency requirement for social housing for EU migrants

Ending the ability of EU
jobseekers to claim any job-seeking benefits

Requiring EU jobseekers
who have not found a job within six months to leave

Insist new EU member
states' citizens do not have free movement rights "until their economies
have converged much more closely with existing member states"